When you want to learn about something, what is the first thing you do... you go to the internet.

With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television.

I loved Laurel and Hardy and TV shows like 'Robin Hood' and 'Rama of the Jungle'.

I've played the clarinet since I was a kid. I love to sing, but I'm not much of a singer. Let's say that when it comes to vocalizing, I have the soul of Billy Bigelow but the voice of Jigger Cragan.

I am very fond of the people, landscape, poetry, music, history and the Guinness. Being there makes me think of my mother and my grandmother - always sentimental and warm thoughts.

I don't think there is a role that I did twenty years ago that I couldn't do better now.

I don't believe that being against the war can be equated with being non-supportive of our troops.

My job, professionally, is tapping into stuff. We've all got it. But, I just am fortunate enough that, beyond the age of 11, it's what I do professionally.

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.

Fortitude, determination... in a way they're things that I idealize myself and am curious about.

Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it and in so doing took responsibility for my own life.

Which has left me with a healthy respect and fondness for higher education that those of my friends and family who attended universities were cured of long ago.

The more he smiled, the more I wanted to hate him, and yet it was the very thing that made hating him impossible.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

I think the fact that you don't have to go to a class and embarrass yourself if you're not comfortable with your body.

Let's stop for a moment to admire the rotating pies.

We need a spirit of adoption to take us out of the foundling hospital of the world, and to put us into the celestial family.

The gift of the Holy Ghost is as important to man as sunshine and water are to plants.

I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.